This cartoon concerns the 1920 Presidential election. In the late summer of 1920, the Presidential contest between Democratic nominee James M. Cox and Republican nominee Warren G. Harding was beginning to intensify. However, the dominant news story was not the campaign--it was baseball sensatio...

In this quintessential campaign speech, Harding lamented the nation’s lost opportunity for world moral leadership after the World War I, and states his intent to regain it. He also declares that the nation should stay the course and not join the internationalists in their desire to establish memb...

The debate over whether the Senate should agree to the Treaty of Versailles with its provision for entry into the League of Nations continued through the fall of 1919 and early months of 1920. On January 10, 2910, Senator Harding spoke to the meeting of the Ohio Society of New York at the Waldorf...

Senator Harding argued that a “covenant of conscience” rather than a written compact—which would surrender freedom of action and give a military alliance the right to proclaim America’s duty to the world as in Article 10 of the Covenant of the League of Nations—would be in the best interests of t...